We don’t condone torture in our country and we should absolutely not condone it in other countries. We have allowed Canadian citizens to be tortured by other regimes, i.e. Maher Arar, Omar Khadr and Absoufian Abdelrazik, and that is reprehensible. Is...

"Speaking in a video message, al-Zawahiri described the Assad government as a "cancerous regime" that was suffocating the people of Syria." Lets not get involved in this conflict at all. I am reminded here of Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar, wrongly...

Canadians would expect CSIS to act if it were tipped off to, say, an imminent attack on Parliament Hill, even if the source were a rogue regime. As Toews argues, public safety does come first. But we’ve also seen cases in which CSIS and the Royal...

However, ticking-time-bomb cases are so rare as to be almost non-existent. Countries like Morocco that use torture employ it not just for exceptional threats but as a standard investigative technique. Thus Syrian jailers tortured Canadian Maher Arar in...

"And one of the way is to increase efficiency through task-forcing." Thompson said he thinks the government is trying to return to the way it combated terrorism before the Maher Arar Inquiry, which looked into allegations Arar was tortured after being...

"We think that's wrong and that it amounts to an endorsement of the use of torture as a matter of public policy. It amounts to a support for the use of torture. Citing the Maher Arar case that resulted in Justice Dennis O'Connor recommending all...